Chiasmus: In rhetoric, a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.
Examples:
He was just the man for such a place and it was just the place for such a man.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me
Better a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks
The video above shows the examples in the above video. A way to remember chiasmus, is to remember it is a chiasmus, if you can switch the two main things/subject around in a sentence and it still has the same meaning.
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